(ThyBlackMan.com) The only time I ever met Usher was at his very first album release party in 1994. At the time, I was working for NARAS (The Grammy Awards) and Usher was just a child with great talent; not much older than Justin Bieber in the video above. That is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Being media savvy is almost an art form; knowing what to say or do to trigger the media and the public is something that appears to take great skill to achieve. After the Solange-Jay-Z debacle earlier this month, the in-laws took to the store to go shopping, while Solange ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Everyone knows about the fight between the rapper T.I. and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. The two got into their infamous brawl over TI’s wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle and their “little incident” at a Fatburger restaurant. Apparently, T.I.’s jealousy is strong enough to make him try to punch the greatest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the aftermath of the fallout between Beyonce’s sister Solange and her husband Jay-Z, some have seriously pondered the negative impact, if any, that the now infamous elevator brawl will have on Beyonce’s career. I offer this opinion-None at all! As Beyonce has proven in the past by putting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s a war going on outside, no man is safe from, you could run but you can’t hide forever, from these streets that we done took you walking with your head down scared to look, you shook cause ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks. -Excerpt from Prodigy of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Singer Pharrell Williams said that there is now a New Black, and he is one of them, thus generating a storm of controversy over the notion that we can, should, or have moved beyond the historic struggles of our past to a new, free, fresh and empowering identity. This ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I fought long and hard and often for the word “Nigga” to be used exclusively between Black people only, as a term of endearment that symbolized our power as a community to take something that originated in pure hatred, and make it into something positive. We failed. The word ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My Older brother Donald was actually my uncle, but we were close enough in age that he was pretty much a sibling. I’d looked up to him from the day I was born and followed him around for the next 25 years. I followed him to my first trip ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The loss of Aaron McGruder for the cult classic The Boondocks, hit home high and low to a vast majority of fans of the show. His loss was clearly evident when the season premiere of the shows first episode “Pretty Boy Fizzy,” premiered Monday, and the loss of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Time has brought about an immeasurable amount of change. In hip hop’s heyday, rap music was, without question, authentic and thorough; nowadays, people march to a different drum. It appears that only one vainglorious record is all that is required for an individual to be awarded a multi-million dollar ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Does living the Thug Life really pay? It was yesterday when I caught the news online (I don’t really ever watch television anymore) about the arrest of Florida Rapper Trick Daddy on several charges which included possession of cocaine and possession of a weapon and ammunition. A Broward County ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At one point, Jay-Z was the king of hip hop. Editors Note: Please don’t get your panties in a bunch over that statement, stans. Choosing during the composition of his second album to stray lines of pop-rap record magnitudes, Jay-Z went from the guy hip hop heads could clamor ...